Furniture & Lighting

EOQ - Bayer Shelves

The Bayer is a set of modular shelves that formed part of the Deus Ex Machina collection, presented alongside the Orsted Desk and Joseph lamps at Milan Design Week 2013. The shelves themselves are made from oak or walnut, but what defines the Bayer is the system of aluminium links that hold them together structurally. Those links were designed to carry an aesthetic fragility that belies the genuine strength of the material, their forms reminiscent of roots and branches. It was a conscious contrast: warm natural wood suspended and connected by cool, precisely engineered metal. The links are available in the same anodised colour range as the rest of the EOQ collection, including gold, copper, grey, silver and pale gold, making the Bayer highly adaptable to different interiors. The piece was later included in our AL(L) Projects with Aluminium exhibition at Grand Hornu in Belgium, where the links were highlighted as a particularly distinctive expression of what aluminium extrusion could achieve beyond the purely functional.